gurus and their DREAMS

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To understand Advaita the imaginary " I " has to understand what

Advaita is trying to tell me: that life is nothing but a dream. IN a

dream the subject-verb-and-object are one and the same. Exactly like

a dream.

 

When the mind can somehow accept that life is just another dream,

(which is on top of all its sleep-dreams) then it – the mind -- is

free to be the JOY of the Dreamer, dreaming. That is all there is.

 

Why does the mind dream? The same reason we make movies and write

and then read novels: the pure JOY called entertainment. I AM and

YOU ARE this JOY of entertainment, dreaming, maya.

 

When the mind takes its entertainment, dreams, seriously then this

creates karma, chaos, that makes the dream, entertainment,

entertaining. Without some sort of karma or chaos all entertainment

would be utterly boring. That is all there is.

 

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TO understand what this mortal-dream called life is about I had to

study the mechanics and dynamics of thoughts and their compartments

called dreams. The Indus River sages of old studied their thoughts

with/in meditation.

 

With their study of thoughts – the Supreme Science – they woke up to

the way their thoughts worked and figured out that life had to be a

dream. They gave us Advaita which simply means not-two; OR – THE MIND

IS WHAT IT THINKS.

 

ANYONE with an IQ of over 50 (close to me IQ, I think )can do what

these sages did and Realize the way their mind WORKS -- TO BE WHAT

IT THINKS.

 

We have this glut of information that we call information-age but

few if any have a clue on what their thoughts are. You would think

that physicists should know because their particles-waves-energy have

to be thoughts but they are even more lost to their thoughts in this

information-age than you/I are.

 

The study of thoughts-dreams that was popular with sages around the

Indus River over five-thousand years ago is buried so deep in this

information-glut-age that nobody seems to have time to study dreams-

thoughts and wake up to their dreaming.

 

Once " I " accept that life is a dream then I will understand the

language of Ramana and his boys when they say: " take life to be a

dream and be done with it. " …. " to kill an insect is suicide "

 

And once " you " – " I " realize that I am the Dreamer -- AND NOT SOME

IMAGINARY CHARACTER IN THE DREAM –- then I am Untouchable because

the character I play becomes irrelevant .. and what the characters do

and think becomes irrelevant .. because it is all just a dream; the

worst thing that can happen in a dream is you wake up to be what you

are.

 

GO AHEAD AND project yourself into a dream. Try it out and you will

have to laugh at the absurdity of taking things seriously.

 

YOU ARE IN A DREAM: You want to go on a bicycle ride but you cannot

find your helmet. You refuse to ride without your helmet because it

is dangerous... brain damage and all that. So you spend your whole

dream looking for the fucking helmet never realizing that it can make

no difference because it is all a fucking dream – you cannot get

brain damage in a dream. SO TOO IN THIS MORTAL-DREAM CALLED LIFE.

 

Figure out how dreams work – compare them to this mortal-dream called

life and you will be the next Ramana.

 

More and more I go around day to day as I keep telling myself that

this HAS TO BE a dream because it is less real than my sleep-dreams

that - for some strange reason – keep getting more and more real. My

sleep dreams are often so real, in fact, that often when I wake up I

cannot believe that I was actually dreaming.

 

I may not be aware that I am dreaming in my sleep-dreams – but in

this mortal-dream called life I cannot believe that it is anything

but a dream. And the mind is what it thinks – take life to be a dream

and it has to be a dream.

 

I see movies that are pure fiction, like the movie The Matrix and

Fight Club and to ME they are far, far more real that this-mortal

dream called life. (Again, the mind is what it thinks) So much so

that more and more – especially WITH ALL THIS BS WRITING – I have to

keep convincing myself MORE AND MORE until there is NO DOUBT that

this mortal-dream called life has to be a dream, PERIOD, no-doubts.

 

I cannot take life to be anything more than a dream … I have to be

the Dreamer. I am JOY and Laughter because I am aware that as the

Dreamer I AM UNTOUCHABLE.... Because I am the Dreamer life has to

be MY dream so it makes absolutely no difference if I have my " bike

helmet " or if I am a beggar, a mass murderer, or pope or emperor or

even " god " or the devil or even shit … THAT IS JUST THE WAY

Advaita, DREAMS, HAVE TO WORK – the dreamer is Untouchable, the

Dreamer is the JOY called entertainment, maya.

 

-- NOW

 

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Nisargadatta , " sam_t_7 " <sam_t_7> wrote:

> Nisargadatta , " Gene Polotas " <semmin@e...> >

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> >

> >

> >But in this maya we call life there is no choice any more than

> there is thinking and doing, so what I choose can make no

difference

> to what cannot happen – because Nothing Ever Happens.

> >In this maya we call life there is no choice any more than there

is

> thinking and doing, so what I choose can make no difference to what

> cannot happen – because Nothing Ever Happens.

>

>

> Question: then why do you (this nothing) put out this maya that

> you call life, take on a body, when Nothing Ever Happens. You are

> yet another one who talks endlessly about the No thing and the

> illusion while not understanding why the illusion is here in the

> first place. Whether or not Nothing ever happens is irrelevent. It

> doesn't stop the Creator from creating endlessly out of void -

> irregardless that it's not real. It's what YOU are. You can't

> stop it so you try to explain it to make it go away and yet it goes

> on and on and on from time immemorial. Your words have twisted

> back upon themselves until they've confused you and you have missed

> the simplicity of it --- pure creation. Making something out of

> nothing at all. Your trying to laugh at it or make some sense out

> of it and in doing so you don't even realize that there is only You

> doing the dreaming and the creating - the split comes when you

don't

> even know this You and the choice that is ever before You. What is

> there then to convince anyone of?